Creating a PHP websockets server

Question

I am new in websockets technology. I was trying to create a websockets php server and connect to the server with a javascript client. I am using xampp 1.8.3.

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Answer 1

WebSockets are not raw TCP sockets. They require a rather complex HTTP-like handshake to establish a connection, and require data transferred over them to be encoded and framed in a very particular way. The protocol is defined in RFC 6455.

Unless you are feeling incredibly masochistic, you don't want to try to implement this yourself. Use a library like Ratchet to implement WebSockets in PHP.